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  • Amish Women and the Great Depression

    by Katherine Jellison, Steven D. Reschly ...
    Series series Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
    A detailed look at how Amish women sustained family farming during the Great Depression.At the end of the Great Depression, the US Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) designated the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the most economically and culturally stable agricultural community in the nation. In Amish Women and the Great Depression, Katherine Jellison and Steven D. Reschly ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Strangers at Home

    Amish and Mennonite Women in History

    Edited by Kimberly D. Schmidt, Diane Zimmerman Umble, Steven D. Reschly ...
    Series series Center Books in Anabaptist Studies
    This collection of original essays focuses on the rich, historically diverse, and often misunderstood experiences of Amish, Mennonite, and other women of Anabaptist traditions across 400 years. Equal parts sociology, religious history, and gender studies, the book explores the changing roles and issues surrounding Anabaptist women in communities ranging from sixteenth-century Europe to ... Read more

    $41.89 USD

  • Strangers At Home

    Amish and Mennonite Women in History

    by Kimberly D. Schmidt, Diane Z. Umble, Steven D. Reschly ...
    "Uniformly sophisticated, interesting, and worthwhile" essays focusing on the often misunderstood experiences of Anabaptist women across 400 years ( Agricultural History).Equal parts sociology, religious history, and gender studies, this book explores the changing roles and issues surrounding Anabaptist women in communities ranging from sixteenth-century Europe to contemporary North America. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Seeking Places of Peace

    A Global Mennonite History

    by Royden Loewen ...
    Perhaps the most inclusive, sweeping, and insightful history ever written about the North American Mennonite saga. Both authors are eminent historians. Royden Loewen is Professor of History, with a chair in Mennonite Studies, at the University of Winnipeg. Steven M. Nolt is Professor of History at Goshen (IN) College. Both authors of this book bring to the task the insights of "social history." As ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Amish

    by Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, Steven M. Nolt ...
    The Amish have always struggled with the modern world. Known for their simple clothing, plain lifestyle, and horse-and-buggy mode of transportation, Amish communities continually face outside pressures to modify their cultural patterns, social organization, and religious world view. An intimate portrait of Amish life, The Amish explores not only the emerging diversity and evolving identities ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • A History of the Amish

    Third Edition

    by Steven M. Nolt ...
    The Amish, one of America’s most intriguingly private, unique, and often misunderstood religious communities, have survived for three hundred years! How has that happened?While much has been written on the Amish, little has been revealed about their history. This book brings together in one volume a thorough history of the Amish people. From their beginnings in Europe through their settlement in ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Quiet and Peaceable Life

    People's Place Book No.2

    by John Ruth ...
    John L. Ruth, a Mennonite storyteller/historian, captures the spirit of Old Order Mennonite and Amish groups in his essays, along with photographs, poetry, and quotations. If the "plain people" of North America are to be understood in terms of their own concerns, we must consider sympathetically their own expressions and the biblical cadences they echo. Having maintained, with the tolerance of ... Read more

    $6.95 USD

  • Mennonite Women in Canada

    A History

    by Marlene Epp ...
    Series Book 2 - Studies in Immigration and Culture
    Mennonite Women in Canada traces the complex social history and multiple identities of Canadian Mennonite women over 200 years. Marlene Epp explores women’s roles, as prescribed and as lived, within the contexts of immigration and settlement, household and family, church and organizational life, work and education, and in response to social trends and events. The combined histories of Mennonite ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • In Search of Promised Lands

    A Religious History of Mennonites in Ontario

    by Samuel J. Steiner ...
    The wide-ranging story of Mennonite migration, theological diversity, and interaction with other Christian streams is distilled in this engaging volume, which tracks the history of Ontario Mennonites.Author Samuel J. Steiner writes that Ontario Mennonites and Amish are among the most diverse in the world—in their historical migrations and cultural roots, in their theological responses to the world ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Introduction to Russian Mennonites

    A Story Of Flights And Resettlements-- To Homelands In The Ukraine, The Chaco, T

    by Wally Kroeker ...
    Mennonites in Russia? Invited by Catherine the Great to farm the Russian steppes -- in exchange for exemption from military service -- Mennonite emigrants from Polish Prussia and The Netherlands made their home in Russia. Some remain today; many more eventually left for North and South Americas and Europe. Nearly all retain memories and stories from that place -- unbelievable prosperity for some; ... Read more

    $7.95 USD

  • The Waterloo Mennonites

    A Community in Paradox

    by J. Winfield Fretz ...
    The Waterloo Mennonites is truly a communal book: the substance treats the communal aspect of the Mennonite community in all its complexity, while the book itself came about through communal effort from the students and researchers assisting Fretz, the various organizations and individuals providing support, the larger community including the two universities and Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • New York Amish

    Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State

    by Karen M. Johnson-Weiner ...
    In a book that highlights the existence and diversity of Amish communities in New York State, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on twenty-five years of observation, participation, interviews, and archival research to emphasize the contribution of the Amish to the state's rich cultural heritage.While the Amish settlements in Pennsylvania and Ohio are internationally known, the Amish population in New ... Read more

    $20.49 USD